kinopyo

Check whether a Paperclip attachment exists

Don’t simply test for the presence of the magic Paperclip attribute, it will return a paperclip Attachment object and thus always be true:

- if user.photo.present? # always true
  = image_tag(user.photo.url)

adamstac

Install and configure Sendmail on Ubuntu

This should help you get Sendmail installed with basic configuration on Ubuntu.

1. If sendmail isn't installed, install it: sudo apt-get install sendmail
2. Configure /etc/hosts file: nano /etc/hosts
3. Make sure the line looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostname
4. Run Sendmail's config and answer 'Y' to everything: sudo sendmailconfig
5. Restart apache sudo service apache2 restart